Cradle and tete-a-tete



UNITE-I) STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEO. H. HAYZLEWOOD, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

CRADLE AND TTE--TTE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 9,829, dated July 5, 1853.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE HENRY HAZLE- wOoD, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cradles for Children; and I do hereby declare that the same is fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, let-ters, figures, and references thereof.

Of the said drawings, Figure l denotes a top view, and Fig. 2 a side elevation of my improved cradle or childs crib as it may be termed.

A in the said figures denotes the frame or stand for supporting the bed frame B, which is suspended between posts a, Z), by means of cords c, d, such cords beingfastened to and around a pulley or wheel c and made to eX- tend downward as seen at f, f in Fig. 3,

which denotes a transverse section of thev cradle. The roller of each of the cords turns freely on a supporting pin g, extended inward from the upper end of the post t or Z).

The bed frame B, that supports the mattress or cushions 7L, z', is made about twice as long as it is wide, its sides being made of open work in the usual way. One half of each of these sides however is made movable and affixed to the other half by hinges or analogous contrivances so as to enable it to be turned inward and made to extend across the bed frame from one side of it to the other as represented by dotted lines in Fig. l. The movable part of each of the sides of the frame is placed directly opposite the stationary part of the other sid-e 'as represented in Fig. l.

The bed or mattress as before stated is composed of two parts or cushions, which on being removed from the bed frame will admit of the gates or movable parts of its two sides being moved around out of line with the stationary parts and made to stand at right angles with them, respectively so as to constitute arms as it were of a tte-a-tte.

In Fig. 4, I have exhibited a top view of the bed frame, when its cushions and arms are arranged at a tte-a-tte sofa or chair or one in which two persons can sit not face to face, but in opposite directions.

Thus by my improvement it will be perceived that a person can readily convert a swinging cradle into a tte-a-tte chair, such being the obj ect of my invention.

That therefore I claim as my invention 1s- To so construct the two sides of the bed frame of the cradle, that portions of each may be turned around and arranged parallel to one another and across the bed frame so as to convert such bed frame into a tte-atte seat or chair substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereto set' my signature this sixteenth day of. April A. D. 1853.

GEORGE HENRY HAZLEVOOD` W'itnesses R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr. 

